Genre: Good and heavy songs, murky and moody one minute, then frenetically pounding the next. Formerly the Rainbow Butt Monkeys.

Official site: http://www.fingereleven.com/

News & Events: The band has finally emerged from Arnyard Studios with a great new album, and have just played a few live gigs to work out the new material.

The "Greyest of Blue Skies" will be released on July 25 on Wind-up Records. Here's the track listing:

First Time, Drag You Down, My Carousel, Sick Of It All, For The Ocean, Broken Words, Suffocate, Bones + Joints, Famous Walking In My Shoes, Stay and Drown.

If you haven't been to the site in a while, you can listen to a full length stream of "Drag You Down" from "The Greyest of Blue Skies" at http://www.fingereleven.com/audio/audio.htm

finger eleven has a live date coming up on June 3 at Playdium in Mississauga, ON--with summer dates soon to be added.

Year founded: 1994

Record Label: Sony Music Canada

July 16 at Centennial Field in Grand Falls, NL The Novaks with: The Tragically Hip, Finger Eleven, K-OS, David Wilcox
Other Info: Salmon Festival
June 28 at the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver, BC [tourist] with: Finger Eleven, Gob, Clutch, State of Shock, Everything After, the Solution, Suspect
August 10 at Shaw Mil Park in Calgary, Alberta One900 with: Finger Eleven, Swollen Members, Shocore, Danko Jones
Other Info: Molson Canadian Snow Jam www.iam.ca
June 30 at Soundwaves Festival in Ottawa, ON
May 19 at Eight Ball Cafe in Chatham, Ontario TRANZIT with: FINGER ELEVEN, Flicker,
Other Info: 19 + show